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butchery


1. The business of a butcher.

2. Murder or manslaughter, especially. When committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. "The perpetration of human butchery." (Prescott)

3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. "Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery." (Fabyan)

Synonym: Murder, slaughter, carnage. See Massacre.

Origin: OE. Bocherie shambles, fr. F. Boucherie. See Butcher.

Source: Websters Dictionary